School: Stackallen (roll number 1309)
- Location:
- Stackallan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: P.T. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0714, Page 060
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- (continued from previous page)taking Blight, because it was the blight that caused the famine. Some of the neighbours from around our house help us to plane our potatoes because we give them a few drills of potatoes. A lot of the farmers around here give a few drills or ridges to their neighbours. The people they give the drills or ridges to bring their own manure and potatoes. The people around here when digging their potatoes use a potato-digger or a plough or a spade. Some people gather their potatoes in buckets and spill them in a pit in the field. Then they are left in the field for about a forthnight and then they are brought into the haggard on carts and stored in pits or in sheds. It is mostly in pits they are stored in this district.
There are different varieties of potatoes planted in this district. Here are the names of them Aran banners, Aran chiefs, British Queens, Epicures, Shamrocks, Presidence, Champion Puritans, Kers pinks, Black bulls, Aran "victors," Leinster wonders and Sharps express. The potatoes that grow best in this district are Epicures, British Queens and Kers pinks.
Long ago potatoes were used instead(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Braystown, Co. Meath
